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Death of Virgil

By Hermann Broch

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Death of Virgil

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It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
1995-01-15
Publication Date:
1995-01-15
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679755489
ISBN13:
9780679755487
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
367 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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